Woman tells court of being unable to stop father raping her sister

A County Westmeath woman has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she watched her three-year-old sister being raped by her father as there was nothing she could do to stop it because she was afraid of him.

Woman tells court of being unable to stop father raping her sister

A County Westmeath woman has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she watched her three-year-old sister being raped by her father as there was nothing she could do to stop it because she was afraid of him.

The woman, who alleges that her father also raped and sexually abused her from the time she was five years old, said that when she saw her father coming in drunk and undoing his belt that day, she picked up her little sister and put her arms around her to protect her.

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